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BELLE Shoe Sales Plunged Replay Acquisition By BELLE

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In recent years, the sales volume of BELLE international footwear retail in mainland China has dropped rapidly, so Belle International Holdings Ltd has shifted its focus to sports and apparel business.

BELLE international has announced that it will acquire 29% stake in Fashion Box SpA of Italy Cowboy brand Replay parent company.

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The two sides will establish a joint venture to manage the development of Replay brand in the Greater China market.

The Claudio Buziol family, which founded Replay brand in 1978 and set up Fashion Box SpA, has completely withdrawn from this paction.

The Buziol family has sold Fashion Box SpA 51% stake in the Equibox Holding SpA controlled by Matteo Sinigaglia and Massimo Sinigaglia brothers in 2010. Now the family sells the remaining 49% stake to BELLE international and Box.

BELLE international and Equibox Hodling SpA have made three years development plan for Fashion Box SpA.

The development strategy aimed at building global brands includes layoffs (30 people) and new partners for the US, Latin American and Japanese businesses. Fashion Box SpA will also focus on Replay.

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In addition to Replay, Fashion Box SpA also owns children's wear brand Replay & Sons and high-end brand We Are Replay, which has 3000 sales outlets and 200 retail outlets worldwide.

In 2014, the group earned about 204 million euros, and 87% came from the international market.

From the end of fiscal year 2013, BELLE's international footwear business with Belle, BELLE, StacCATo Staccato and Joy & Peace real brands began to show a downward trend. In the second half of the 2015 fiscal year, the deterioration of the situation was widened to double digits. The group decided to close a lot and withdraw from the Hongkong market.

At the same time, as the sports industry is unusually hot, BELLE International's sports and apparel business has grown with the largest agent of Nike Nike China and the advantages of China's main agents, such as Adidas Adidas, Puma Puma and CAT, as well as sports and outdoor products brands.

In the three quarter of fiscal 2015, BELLE international has been reducing its stores, but in the three quarter, the group has increased 278 stores, of which 272 are sports and clothing stores. The fourth quarter group has expanded rapidly. 315 of the 367 sales points that have been added up are sports and apparel business.

BELLE International's clothing business is mainly Moussy and Sly two Japanese fashion brands.

In 2013, the group bought a 31.96% stake in the two parent brands, Baroque Japan Barok and Japan, at $93 million 960 thousand (about HK $732 million 900 thousand), while one of BELLE's international shareholders, CDH investment, also acquired 23% stake in Baroque Japan Barok Japan.

After the paction, BELLE international and Baroque Japan Barok set up a Chinese joint venture to expand China's expansion for Moussy and Sly.

  

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International (1880.HK) reported HK $4.73 on Tuesday, a 0.42% rise in all day, which has fallen 19% in 2016.


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